ESTATE OF GOSTON v. FORD MOTOR CO.

No. 94-1229.

898 S.W.2d 471 (1995)

320 Ark. 699

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Venita J. GOSTON, Deceased, et al., Appellant, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY, et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

June 5, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Marshall Friedman and Kenneth E. Rudd, St. Louis, MO, William T. Finnegan, Little Rock, for appellant.

Gail O. Matthews, Little Rock, for appellees.


ROAF, Justice.

This tort case presents the question of whether the Circuit Judge was correct in dismissing a claim on the basis of res judicata. We affirm the result reached by the trial court, but for the reason that the appellant's claim was precluded by Ark.R.Civ.P. 13(a), which requires that a compulsory counterclaim be pled.

This case arises from an accident between two vehicles that occurred on February 12, 1988. Leo Goston, appellant, was heading north...

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